Psychology 1000 Chapter 14: Chapter 14 - Personality

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Personality the distinctive and relatively enduring ways of thinking, feeling, and acting that characterize a person"s response to life situations. There are three characteristics of an individual"s personality: Seen as components of identity that distinguish that person from other people. Behaviours are viewed as being caused primarily by internal rather than environmental factors. Person"s behaviours seem to fit together in a meaningful fashion, suggesting an inner personality that guides and directs behaviour. Instinctual drives generate psychic energy, which powers the mind and constantly presses for either direct or indirect release. Mental events may be conscious, preconscious or unconscious. Conscious mind consists of mental events that we are presently aware of. Preconscious mind contains memories, thoughts, feelings, and images that we are unaware of at the moment by that can be called into conscious awareness. Unconscious mind is a dynamic realm of wishes, feelings, and impulses that lie beyond our awareness. Freud divided personality into three separate but interacting structures: